The Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), or Large Heavy Ion National Accelerator, is a French national
nuclear physics
Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies atomic nuclei and their constituents and interactions, in addition to the study of other forms of nuclear matter.
Nuclear physics should not be confused with atomic physics, which studies th ...
research center in
Caen
Caen (; ; ) is a Communes of France, commune inland from the northwestern coast of France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Calvados (department), Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inha ...
. The facility has been in operation since 1983 and consists primarily of two serialised
synchrocyclotron
A synchrocyclotron is a special type of cyclotron, patented by Edwin McMillan in 1952, in which the frequency of the driving RF electric field is varied to compensate for relativistic effects as the particles' velocity begins to approach the sp ...
s. It is a part of the
French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, or CEA ( French: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives), is a French public government-funded research organisation in the areas of energy, defense and sec ...
(CEA), more specifically the
CEA Paris-Saclay center.
See also
Projects:
*
Fazia
Similar facilities:
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GSI, Germany
*
Riken
is a national scientific research institute in Japan. Founded in 1917, it now has about 3,000 scientists on seven campuses across Japan, including the main site at Wakō, Saitama, Wakō, Saitama Prefecture, on the outskirts of Tokyo. Riken is a ...
, Japan
*
NSCL, USA
*
Dubna
Dubna ( rus, Дубна́, p=dʊbˈna) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It has a status of '' naukograd'' (i.e. town of science), being home to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, an international nuclear physics research center and o ...
, Russia
*
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin, western suburb of Gene ...
, Switzerland
*
TRIUMF Triumf may refer to:
* TRIUMF, Canada's national particle accelerator centre
* 14959 TRIUMF, a minor planet
* S-400 Triumf, a Russian anti-aircraft weapon system developed in the 1990s
* Triumf Riza (1979–2007), Kosovo police officer and member o ...
, Canada
External links
https://www.ganil-spiral2.euCEA Irfu GANILScholarpedia article
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Laboratories in France
Nuclear research institutes
Research institutes in France
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Institutes associated with CERN
French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission